Chapter 13: CodeMaid is Your Friend
Visual Studio, as amazing and mature as it is as an integrated development environment (IDE), will never be everything to everyone right out of the box. What contributes greatly to its function is its open extensibility. This means that non-Microsoft developers can write code to do things that those developing the core Visual Studio product have not thought of, do not have the bandwidth to tackle, or simply choose to let others handle. The handful of custom extensions visited in the last few chapters are great examples of developers going beyond what is offered in the initial installation.
In the next few chapters, we are going to take a deep dive into interesting extensions that serve as diverse examples of what is possible. In this chapter, we will start with the CodeMaid extension.
The primary features of CodeMaid involve cleaning and organizing your code. Random spacing is made consistent, using statements can be sorted (or removed if unused...
